Nancy Bentley

Nancy Bentley is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include The Ethnography of Manners and Frantic Panoramas: Mass Culture and American Literature, 1870-1920 . She coauthored Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2005) and is currently writing a book entitled "New World Kinship and American Literature," a study of the way the novel and other genres mediated the multiple forms of kinship in the Americas in the nineteenth...See more

Nancy Bentley is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include The Ethnography of Manners and Frantic Panoramas: Mass Culture and American Literature, 1870-1920 . She coauthored Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2005) and is currently writing a book entitled "New World Kinship and American Literature," a study of the way the novel and other genres mediated the multiple forms of kinship in the Americas in the nineteenth century. See less